vateer Alabama succeeded in escaping from the that town, praying that the town should not be harbor of Martinique.-See Supplement. fired upon, informed them that he was authorized -GENERAL ROSECRANS, from his headquarters to say that so long as no hostile demonstration at Nashville, Tenn., issued general orders defin- was made from the town it would not be shelled. ing the relations between soldiers and citizens.--(Doc. 54.) General Order No. 19. November 20. Colonel Carlin's expedition, which had been patrolling the country between Nashville and Clarksville, Tenn., returned to the former place this evening, having captured fortythree rebels, eighteen horses, twenty mules, and one hundred muskets.-Louisville Journal. -JUST before daybreak this morning a party of rebel cavalry made a sudden descent upon the National pickets stationed at Bull Run bridge, Va., and captured three of their number.-Both Warrenton and Leesburgh were occupied by rebel cavalry. -COMMANDER FOXHALL A. PARKER, of the steamer Mahaska, in conjunction with a body of land forces under Brigadier-General Naglee, made an expedition into Mathew County, Va., and together destroyed twelve salt-works, with a large quantity of salt, burned five schooners, two sloops, and a number of scows and boats, and captured a lighter and twenty-four large canoes. They also destroyed a vessel on the stocks.-Report of Admiral Lee. A PARTY of rebels made an attack upon the National forces near Halltown, Va., but were driven back by General Geary, who opened November 21.-General Patrick, Provost-Mar- on them a masked battery of six guns.-The shal-General of the army of the Potomac, this Secretary of War issued an order discharging morning crossed the Rappahannock to Fredericks- from military custody all persons who had been burgh, Va., under a flag of truce, conveying to arrested for discouraging volunteer enlistments, the rebel authorities of that city a letter from opposing the draft, or for otherwise giving aid Major-General Sumner, commanding right grand and comfort to the rebels; also discharging all division of the army, demanding its surrender. persons who had been arrested in the rebel States, -(Doc. 54.) and sent from such States for disloyalty or hos—A SHARP Skirmish took place at Bayou Bon-tility to the Government of the United States, touca, near Fort Pike, La., between a small de- upon giving their parole to do no act of hostility tachment of Union troops commanded by Cap- against the Government, nor render aid to its tain Darling, Thirty-first Massachusetts, and a band of guerrillas, numbering one hundred and fifty, under Captain Evans. The fight lasted about half an hour, and resulted in a rout of the rebels, with a loss to them of four killed and several wounded. The Union force had none killed and but one wounded. -CHARLES A. DAVIS, a chaplain in the army of the United States, was this day expelled from the Methodist Conference of Virginia, by that body in session at Petersburgh.—Salem, Va., was occupied by the rebels. November 22.-A party of National troops, consisting of details from four companies of the First New-York cavalry, under the command of Captain Harkins, had a skirmish with a body of rebels near Winchester, Va., and succeeded in capturing four men and thirty horses.-Baltimore American. -MAJOR-GENERAL SUMNER, commanding the right grand division of the army of the Potomac at Fredericksburgh, Va., in reply to a communication from the Mayor and Common Council of enemies. November 23.-Lieutenant Cushing, in command of the United States steamer Ellis, proceed ed up New-River, N. C., on a reconnoitring ex pedition. At Jacksonville, he captured two schooners, and in returning down the river, succeeded in running his own vessel on a shoal and losing her.-(Doc. 33.) November 24.-General Kelley sent out a party of National scouts from New-Creek, who succeeded in capturing a rebel cavalry picket of twelve men, with horses and accoutrements, within four miles of Winchester, Va. The prisoners reported that Stonewall Jackson had left that vicinity with his command for Richmond, leaving only a regiment of cavalry, who were instructed to follow in a few days.-Notice was given to women desiring to go to their friends in the rebel States, that their applications would have to be presented in writing, and verified by oath, previous to the sixteenth day of December following.-The schooner Retribution ran the blockade of Wilmington, N. C. General R. H. Milroy, commanding the Cheat Mountain (Va.) division of the Union army, is sued an order suppressing the circulation of the Wheeling (Va.) Press within his lines.-General Orders, No. 36. -Ar noon to-day, several hundred mounted guerrillas attacked a Federal supply train of forty-seven wagons, in Texas County, Mo., between Hartsville and Houston, about thirty miles south of Lebanon. The train escort consisted of fifty men of the Third Missouri cavalry. They made a vigorous resistance, had five of their number killed, and about a dozen wounded, and inflicted an equal if not greater loss upon the enemy. The latter succeeded in capturing only twenty of the wagons. The rest were brought off in safety, with their contents, by the escort and the teamsters.-Missouri Democrat. the rebels at Zuni, on the Blackwater River, Va., resulting in the rout of the rebels, with the wounding of one private on the National side. -HENDERSON, Tenn., was captured by the rebel cavalry, who burned the railroad station at that place, and made prisoners of a company of Union troops.-The rebel guerrilla Burke was killed at Shepherdstown, Md., by a party of the Second Massachusetts regiment, under the command of Captain Cogswell.-Baltimore American. -A PARTY of rebel guerrillas, who were mak ing a raid in Crawford County, Mo., robbing the farmers of their fire-arms, horses, harness, clothing, negroes, etc., were to-day overtaken in the vicinity of Huzza River, Iron County, by a company of volunteers, under the command of Captain N. B. Reeves, and dispersed, with the loss of all their plunder, two of the party being killed.—(Doc. 69.) November 26.-A fight took place at Cold Knob Mountain, Va., between the Second Virginia vol —THE schooner Agnes, and sloop Ellen, from Nassau, N. P., had run into Indian River, Fla., and discharged their cargoes, and when returning in ballast, were captured by a boat expedi-unteer cavalry, Colonel J. C. Paxton, and a force tion from the United States gunboat Sagamore, some eight miles down the river. November 25.-J. W. Shirk, of the gunboat Lexington, had a skirmish with a body of rebels at a plantation on the Mississippi River, twenty miles below Helena, Ark. The gunboat was fired upon by a party of infantry, assisted by a piece of artillery, without damage, however, except to the wood-work of the vessel. Captain Shirk brought his guns to bear on the attacking party, and soon compelled them to retreat, leaving behind several killed and wounded. He afterward landed a party of sailors, who captured and carried off twenty contrabands, and sixteen bales of cotton.-Official Report. -JAMES BUCHANAN, in the National Intelligencer of this day, closed a controversy between General Winfield Scott and himself, on subjects growing out of the rebellion.--The Eighth and Fifty-first regiments of Massachusetts volunteers, under the command of Colonels Coffin and Sprague, embarked from Boston for Newbern, N. C. of rebel troops, in which the latter were routed, with the loss of over one hundred of their number taken prisoners, with their horses, etc.-(Doc. 49.) -BETWEEN two and three o'clock this morning, a gang of twenty or thirty rebel guerrillas, led by Evan Dorsey, crossed into Maryland and visited the village of Urbanna, seven miles south-east of Frederick, on the road leading to Washington. They made a descent upon the store of Thomas A. Smith, the Postmaster at Urbanna, and, after robbing the store, made Smith and a young man named Harris, the assistant postmaster, mount two of Smith's horses, with the design of carrying them off as prisoners. Smith, who was a resolute man, watched his opportunity, and gave them the slip in the darkness of the night. The rebels fired three or four shots after him, but missed him. Thinking Harris might also escape, one of the gang shot him through the body, saying: "We'll make short of you, before you try on the same game." They then rode away, leaving him for dead by the roadside.-National Intelligencer. -A SUCCESSFUL reconnoissance was made this -THIS morning at daylight, a body of rebel morning by a detachment of Union troops, under cavalry entered Poolesville, Md., seized the gov- the command of General Geary, from Harper's ernment telegraph operators stationed there, pa- Ferry, along the Shenandoah to the vicinity of roled them, and then permitted them to telegraph Berryville, Va. They captured a number of prito the authorities at Washington an account of soners, destroyed a rebel cloth factory, which what had befallen them.-Colonel Dodge, with cost over one hundred thousand dollars, and obtwo battalions of mounted rifles and one how-tained some valuable information concerning the itzer, had a spirited but short engagement with numbers and position of the rebel forces. age. This morning the United States forces con- take în wood. She had not got more than a coru sisting of the Ninth Illinois and part of the Four- when she was surprised by a gang of guerrillas, teenth Missouri regiments, under the command who took possession of her and moved her to the of Colonel Mersey, evacuated Rienzi, Miss., carry-opposite side of the river, and after rolling out |